Asymmetric genetic attribution of one's own prosocial and antisocial behavior Open Data Open Material

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2022.2058906

DESCRIPTION

This study explains that it was investigating whether genetic factors are relevant in the social behaviors that people engage in. In this study, genetic factors were assessed by considering positive behaviors as prosocial and negative behaviors as antisocial, testing whether they show similar asymmetries and which variables might mediate this difference.

Participants in the study were asked to think about examples of their own behavior in the past year that were either prosocial or antisocial, and those with prosocial behavior rated the role of genetics in causing their behavior significantly greater than those with antisocial behavior.

They explained that mediation analysis suggested that this asymmetry could be explained by a tendency to view prosocial behavior as more natural and more in line with one's true self than antisocial behavior.